Such a wife as I want will, I know, be difficult to be found, but if you succeed, it will be the stronger proof of your zeal and dexterity. įorwarding several letters which had arrived from Laurens' wife, Hamilton continues:Īnd Now my Dear as we are upon the subject of wife, I empower and command you to get me one in Carolina. But as you have done it and as we are generally indulgent to those we love, I shall not scruple to pardon the fraud you have committed, on condition that for my sake, if not for your own, you will always continue to merit the partiality, which you have so artfully instilled into. You sh not have taken advantage of my sensibility to ste into my affections without my consent. You know the opinion I entertain of mankind, and how much it is my desire to preserve myself free from particular attachments, and to keep my happiness independent on the caprice of others. I shall only tell you that 'till you bade us Adieu, I hardly knew the value you had taught my heart to set upon you.
The American Revolution was in progress John Laurens had left camp for South Carolina, hoping to be authorized by that colony's assembly to organize battalions of Black slaves to fight the British.Ĭold in my professions, warm in friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it m be in my power, by action rather than words, convince you that I love you. Both young revolutionaries were part of that close male circle surrounding General Washington-his "family," as the general called them. The letters excerpted here begin in 1779 when Hamilton was twenty-two and Laurens was twenty-five.
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